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0Followup: Key deadline arrives Saturday in Honda Civic Hybrid lawsuit 1328919720
A California woman beat Honda in small-claims court last week, receiving nearly $10,000 in damages after getting lower-than-advertised fuel economy in her Civic Hybrid. Early next week, we may have a better idea of how many people intend to follow her lead. A key deadline arrives Saturday ... -
Exclusive: Why did Honda kill its best performance engine? 1328808540
The performance profile of the turbo four may have doomed it to being merely a footnote in Honda's illustrious history. When the 2013 Acura RDX launches this spring, Honda will quietly close down a spur line of its Anna, OH, plant. Since 2006, it had been building the 2.3-liter ...
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Report: Wagons West: Domestics picked up market share in California last year 1328295660
Most days, California must seem like Kazakhstan for the Big Three. Domestic products aren't so popular out West, where Toyota and Honda have long stood atop the sales charts. But not in 2011. According to a report in Automotive News, both General Motors and Ford managed to bump Honda from its ...
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Official: Honda to enter World Touring Car Championship with new Civic 1328284860
Honda has announced plans to enter the FIA World Touring Car Championship with this, a hot new racer based on the newly redesigned 2012 Civic (well, the European five-door, anyway). Details are slim about the new touring car racer, but the automaker has released a statement confirming that the ...
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Report: California woman wins Civic Hybrid lawsuit against Honda 1328189100
Heather Peters sued Honda in small-claims court in Torrance, California over the gas mileage she was getting in her Honda Civic Hybrid, which was around 20 miles per gallon less than Honda had advertised. After two days of testimony, Commissioner Doug Carnahan sent his 26-page decision to both ...
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Video: Sparks fly with Honda's cool new European Civic ad 1328058000
We'll be the first to admit we weren't overly taken with the Super Bowl commercial Honda worked up featuring Matthew Broderick. The company has a long history of genuinely great advertising, and while the countless Ferris Bueller's Day Off references were clever, the ad didn't really come close ...
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Report: Analysts: U.S. automakers will lose marketshare in 2012 1328043600
Domestic automakers have much to be happy about, with Chrysler, Ford and General Motors all gaining market share last year for the first time since 1988. Yet according to Bloomberg, 2012 won't be as good to Detroit. Total sales are projected to grow from 12.8 million vehicles last year to 13.6 ...
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Report: McLaren denies plans to switch engine suppliers 1328014740
For 15 years, McLaren was the F1 team of choice for Mercedes-Benz, enjoying a near-works level of support and collaboration from the German automaker. But as you may recall, Daimler bought its own team three seasons ago: the outfit that started out as British American Racing, then became Honda ...
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Video: Seinfeld dumps Porsche to promote Acura NSX during Super Bowl 1327960260
How good will the upcoming return of the Acura NSX be? So good, apparently, that despite still being three years out, the supercar has converted well-known Porsche fan Jerry Seinfeld to worship at the altar of the NSX Concept. Though we wouldn't think the creator and namesake of the hit TV show ...
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Video: Matthew Broderick reprises Ferris Bueller for Honda CR-V Super Bowl ad 1327936860
Honda isn't typically one to dive into the Super Bowl advertising fracus with splashy spots, so when the company anonymously teased us with a quick clip of Matthew Broderick reprising his role from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, our eyebrows did a little dance. Now the company has dropped a ...

